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Société d'Enseignement professionnel du Rhône. Cours de Théorie de Fabrique. Matiéres pour Tissage: manuscript
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Procédé pour fabriquer l'acier Damassé natural: report
Manuscripts
The report, which is written in French, describes the natural process for making Damascus steel, with a focus on the Syrian process, and compares this with steel-making practices in Carinthia, Styria, and France. On the back page of the manuscript is a drawing, in pencil, of two objects; the origin and date of this drawing is unknown, but appears to be later than the text of the manuscript.
mssHM 83091
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Canal de Picardie: manuscript
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The manuscript describes the costs and specifications of work to be done to construct the Canal de Picardie in the province of Picardy in northern France along the Somme River. It was prepared by Charbisse and Prefontene, egineers to King XV. It includes details regarding: geology of the area; locks and bridges to be built; access roads; canal embankments; construction materials needed; removal of houses; aqueducts to be built; and finally, the total cost of the project.
mssHM 74897
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Le prisonnier de la Bastille, la fin des mousquetaires, 3 tableaux
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An autograph manuscript in three sections, written in French, possibly in the hand of Alexandre Dumas; there are pencil notes stating it is partially written by Dumas, but he also employed many assistants to help with his work. It includes settings and stage directions for the tableaux 1-3. The approximate date of the manuscript is 1861 which would mean the manuscript could have been written while Dumas was living in Italy. The manuscript has some damage to the edges of the pages and in the center of the final pages. It is accompanied by materials which provide additional provenance information: autograph notes about the manuscript in an unknown hand; Janet Saville letter to Robert M. Foster, October 18, 1951, with envelope; Thorndike Saville, Jr., letter to David M. Foster, November 16, 2010, with envelope and copy of bank record.
mssHM 84107
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Tractatus et quaestiones in libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione: manuscript
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a treatise on Aristotle's book De generatione et corruptione (On generation and corruption). It includes several hand-drawn illustrations. It is in Latin and undated. Nothing is known about the author and it could be a copy of another authors' text.
mssHM 75695
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Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal
Manuscripts
The manuscript was written by an unknown author who was probably a male student in England in the 1840s (he mentions an article in a 1837 magazine on ballooning). In it, the author writes generally on several different topics including: pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and Sir Humphry Davy, and coal. It contains many hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations (some in color). The volume has many blank pages.
mssHM 76511
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Manuel des péchés : [manuscript]
Manuscripts
ff. 1-667. [William of Waddington, attributed to] Manuel des Péchés. Incipit: Ieo crai dirom comunalment/ En dieu le pier omnipotent. Explicit: Et en le noun saint marie/ Amen Amen chesconne homme die. French. F. J. Furnivall, ed., Roberd of Brunnè's Handlyng Synne (written A.D. 1303) with the French treatise on which it is founded, Le Manuel des Pechiez by William of Wadington. Roxburghe Club 81 (London 1862), and, by the same editor, omitting the sections of the Manuel des Péchés not utilized by Robert of Brunne, in EETS os 119 and 123 (London 1901-03); the following references are to the Roxburghe edition. HM 903 contains the prologue,"Book" 2 with the articles of faith, but lacking the seventh (ff. 1-6; Roxburghe, 1-6, 415-25), the rest of"Book" 1 through"Book" 5 (ff. 6-44; Roxburghe, 6-348), and"Book" 6, being the"Petit Sermun" (ff. 44-48; Roxburghe, 426-34)."Book" 7 begins with the prologue"Lumer indeficient" (f. 48r-v; Roxburghe, 348-49), and gives first the"graces" (ff. 48v-53; Roxburghe, 370-95), then the"points" (ff. 5357v; Roxburghe, 350-69), and the Latin verses with their exposition (ff. 57v-58; Roxburghe, 395-96, n. 3);"Book" 8 follows with the material on prayer (ff. 58-62; Roxburghe, 396-404); the prayers to Christ and the Virgin constitute"Book" 9, followed by the epilogue (ff. 62-67; Roxburghe, 404-14). This manuscript has 61 tales, omitting nn. 7, 28 and 56 as listed in J. A. Herbert's discussion of London, Brit. Lib., Harley 273 in Ward, Cat. of Romances 3:272-84. See E. J. Arnould, Le Manuel des Péchés; étude de littérature religieuse anglo-normande, XIIIe siècle (Paris 1940) with a list of 24 manuscripts, including HM 903. ff. 140-205v, 68-123. [Robert de Gretham] Le miroir ou les évangiles des domnées. Incipit: //Car lui riche est aysetz/ Et lui pover est mesaisetz. Explicit: Issi finissent les omelies/ Des Evangels brefment exponies/ Ore prie touz que les oent et dient/ Qe il pur l'alme del l'exponur [written over an erasure?] prient/ Qe deu maintigne s'alme finie/ Et pur lui sait en sa ballie/ Cy termine le mirour/ Des omeliez la doucour. French. M. Y. H. Aitken, étude sur le Miroir ou les évangiles des Domnées de Robert de Gretham (Paris 1922), based on 5 manuscripts, HM 903 not included. This manuscript is bound incorrectly, and it begins defectively in the first Sunday of Advent (perhaps missing the second half of quire 8, which would have been the"i" signature of the second roman numeral series, amounting to approximately 576-688 verses); also missing material from the end of Pentecost to the beginning of Trinity Sunday. On f. 170v, lower margin, s. XV:"Nota quod deficit hic exposicio v diei dominici post octavam epiphanie scilicet Regressus est ihesus in virtute spiritus sancti in galileam et fama erat per universam regionem de eo.". ff. 123-139v. Ewangelium de apostolis, Item Evvangelium de martiribus and Plurimorum martirum. Incipit: Est cele contemple ihesu crist/ a cez desciples issi dist/ Ceo est le meen comandement/ Ke amez entrechaungeablement. Explicit: Quant en le ciel serra ove ihesu/ En deu nous maint par sa vertu. Amen. French. Three metrical sermons written in the same style as those by Robert de Gretham. See C. G. Laird,"Five New Gretham Sermons and the Middle English Mirrur," PMLA 57 (1942) 628-37 for this material and two sermons of the preceding text. The running headlines, s. XV, in the upper margin are: Ewangelium de apostolis, Item Evvangelium de martiribus and Plurimorum martirum. On f. 139v, in the main scribal hand,"God almyghtfull save al Rightfull/ Wys alle Willeffull, help all Nedfull/ Gladde alle sorufull, haf mercy/ Of alle Synnefull"; see IMEV 981?; printed in C. Laird,"A Fourteenth Century Scribe," MLN 55 (1940) 601-03.
mssHM 903